First off, I have to tell you that I switched jobs six months ago and haven’t been using Outlook since, so I’m working from memory here…

If you’re not getting a date on new mails, it sounds to me like your inboxItems variable isn’t being set correctly at application startup. So I’d suggest adding some code to the Application_Startup() subroutine to pop up a dialog to make sure that:

* the subroutine is being fired;
* the inboxItems variable has been set.

Best of luck,

Ben.

Having scoured the net for a solution to this problem it’s good to see somebody putting a bit more effort into it than the usual ‘MVP’ reply of ‘It can’t be done!’.

Unfortunately after following your steps above I still don’t seem to be able to set the ‘EmailDate’ variable for incoming mail, although I have managed to sort our the items already in the inbox.

I have all of the code within the ‘ThisOutlookSession’ module, I have certified the macro and get no error messages when I run it manually or start-up outlook normally, but any new mails received still have ‘None’ for ‘EmailDate’.

Are there any obvious points that I could check to try and resolve this?

Thanks for any help and also the original code.

Mike